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Cost: Bottled vs Kangen water

PLastic disaster

Dangers of Bottled water

The World Health Organisation announced a review of the potential risks of plastic in drinking water, after a new analysis found that more than 90% of the world’s most popular bottled water brands contained tiny pieces of plastic.

After packaging, a bottled water can sit on shelves in a storage house, in transportation and at the supermarket, before it would be purchased. This can take from few weeks to months. Especially if  the product comes from overseas. 

Have you ever wondered why would water expire? Bottled water does expire, but not why you think. It simply expires, because plastics (PET, HDPE) will leach into the liquid of the bottle once expired.

Single-use plastic

Plastic water-bottle pollution

Enormous amount of oil needed

More than 17 million barrels of oil (data from 2006) are needed to produce enough plastic water bottles to meet the USA's annual demand of bottled water. That's lot's of oil and plastic for only ~330 Million people or 4.1 percent of the earth's population. You do the math.

Source:pacinst.org/publication/bottled-water-fact-sheet/

CO2 emission

The oil extraction from the earth, the plastic production, packaging and transportation all release millions of tonnes of CO2 into our atmosphere, just for a throwaway item.

Filling landfills

About 14% of water bottles get recycled in the US, so 86% end up in garbage. While in Switzerland the recycling rate is 75%, this still means that every 4th bottle ends up in litter.

Less plastic, more health

Facts about the 13 Billion dollar bottled water industry

More than a million water bottles are sold globally every single minute. These bottles take at least 450 years per bottle to completely degrade. The plastic we produced in the last 50 years will be with us in the next 400 years.

Source: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/plastic-bottles

The quality of tap water is highly regulated and the contents are checked multiple times a day. Bottled water producers on the other hand are less regulated and are not obliged to do quality controls that often.

Blind taste tests show that many even preferred the taste of tap water over bottled.

The plastic and chemicals leach into the contents of the bottle. If micro-plastic alone is not enough, BPA and phthalates can dissolve in your bottled water, that can influence your hormonal system.

Why is water so important?

Why is Kangen water importanter?